Getting my head around my mind
Ten years ago, we wrote about the emergence of grassroots computing. We were well into an open source, social, web services landscape where the traditional CIO function had perfected generic IT, but was only beginning to empower employees to build the tools th... More »
Titles are not credentials. They help describe the responsibilities of an individual to facilitate success. The secret is that people decide what other people should be titled. It is in this unseen step that the train comes off the track. So, what do we do abo... More »
Customer designed solutions are radically flawed. IT people do that to manage their business counterparts. “You asked for X and I gave you X. Hope you can drive adoption!†This demands too little from the business to articulate the value proposition – th... More »
Everyone wants a data scientist, yet most have no idea what that would mean – it’s the cool thing to want and even cooler thing to sell. The problem with data science is that it will take time to evolve technology, business and industry to make the discipl... More »
Recently I decided to make a concerted effort in booking air travel with two airlines, American Airlines and Delta. When I updated my American Airlines profile I opted into receiving flight notifications on my iPhone. Upon landing from my last trip, American A... More »
A Franklin-Christoph model 19, black with The King’s Gold bands, a number six, rhodium plated 18k gold, medium cursive italic nib custom ground by master Michael Masuyama marks my recent change of work from JPMorgan to MongoDB. When I went to Landmark Academ... More »
Most of us spend the majority of our life working. In part, the goal of work, is to create a life worth living. Once established the focus tends to shift to the journey of fulfilling work. Some people are lucky because of family, upbringing, education, timing ... More »
Daniel Kahneman says that “We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.†If we... More »
Shawn Achor presents a compelling story of a condition that is systemic in most professional circles – happiness comes after success. Stay focused, work harder and eventually you will have success and then you will be happy – of course not! The challenge is th... More »
In high school I worked at a local quick-printer in town and among the many lessons was the relationship between cost, time and quality. My guess is if you have ever worked in a service job this is not a new concept. Wikipedia talks about it as the project man... More »
Conversations about careers and success seem to be on the rise. On the one had you have the unemployed, on the other those that are employed and on the third hand we have those that are employed and trying to do more than sit tight in uncertain times – they ... More »
